README for replication files;
----------------------------
INITIAL DEPOSIT DATE: 10/18/2019
THIS VERSION: 10/29/2019
-----------------------------
ARTICLE: “Congressional Oversight Revisited: Politics and Procedure in Agency Rulemaking”
AUTHORS: Kenneth Lowande and Rachel Potter
-----------------------------
NOTE: Replication code, data, and codebooks needed to reproduce results presented in-text and in the Supplemental Information provided for the study. Please report any errors to Potter; current contact info: rapotter@virginia.edu
-----------------------------
SOFTWARE: These replication files require Stata Version 15.1, R (v 3.6.1) and associated packages (version): ggplot2 (3.2.0), aod (1.3.1), mfx (1.2-2), ordinal (2019.4-25), doRNG (1.7.1), foreach (1.4.7), xtable (1.8-4), and doMC (1.3.5). 
-----------------------------
FILE LIST:
codebooks.pdf -- codebook for all variables included in each data file.
tab-fig-1.R -- R code for: Figures 2, 3, SI-1, and SI-2; and Tables SI-1, SI-2, SI-3, SI-5, SI-6, SI-7, SI-8, SI-8, and SI-10.
tab-fig-2.do -- Stata code for: Figures 4, and SI-3; and Tables SI-8, SI-11, and SI-12.
bias-sim.R -- R code that produces data for simulation Figure SI-2.
rules-comments-#.Rda -- data for main analyses and robustness checks in R.
Rules-comments-7.dta -- data for analyses and robustness checks in Stata.
sim-results.Rda -- stored results of bias simulation study.
sim-pop -- population of potential commenters for simulation study.
mcs.Rda -- distribution of cfscores for congress.
mc-comments.Rda -- distribtuion of cfscores for congress comments.
firms.Rda -- distribution of cfscores for industry.
firm-comments.Rda -- distribution of cfscores for industry comments.
est-diagnostics.Rda -- stored position estimates and various diagnostics.
all-comments.Rda -- commenting data used to estimate status quos for examples in Figure 2.
